Lawrence Doochin

Accepting the Unknown Brings Peace



Posted: Wednesday, October 08, 2008

by Lawrence Doochin
http://www.iamthereforeiam.net

This journey cannot be understood. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you will be at peace. Understanding is a natural seeking for the mind. For a long time I tried to understand what was happening for me on this path and where I was headed. But my understanding never took me there, and it won't for you either. God happens. It is not that you think it and then you go there. Trying to understand is a form of control that comes from fear.

Clarity requires something being finite, but God is not finite. Allow the River of Life to take you in the direction it presents. Just as the waters swirl in the river, constantly moving you along with changing scenery, there is a steady stream of thoughts, emotions, and experiences that swirl into you and back out of you. Just like the boat trip on the river, you simply enjoy the ride. You don't have to know (clarity) where you are going or even where you are at in that moment. Fear, as in clinging to a rock or wanting to stop the boat, arises from wanting to know where you are at and not being able to know.

Non-understanding is the state of Being, not a state of doing or thinking. When you reside in non-understanding, you are present in the body, not the mind. This state helps you let go of the rock in the River, so that the River can carry you without your resistance.

When you see that you really don't know or understand anything, then you are free to Be. You submit to the wisdom of the body of God, allowing the River of Life to reveal Itself to you. In the world, learning operates under the belief that something can be known and understood. How can we know something which is Infinite? How can an individual tree know how far the forest extends?

God cannot know Himself as Love without appearing to be separate parts, without appearing to be something. But even these parts cannot be understood, because they are forms which are in constant change, never stationary or fixed.

Acceptance that you cannot understand anything leads to great humility and a joyous opening and softening of the heart. When the heart is open, all judgment passes away, and God is able to reveal Himself to you. The eyes see with a gentleness and a compassion that expresses the Love that we are. Freedom is yours, and you are open to all possibilities. And God is infinite possibilities.

The paradox is that while we do not understand anything, we know the Truth of our Being. We know ourselves as Love, as the One.

Trust in the unknown. That is all that is "known," all that is certain, all that can be counted on. God is infinite, unlimited possibilities. When we trust in the unknown, we trust in God.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Larry Doochin came to understand the joy that exists in simply remembering and relaxing into who we truly are after years of spiritual study and therapy for childhood abuse and alienation. Larry currently lives in Nashville with his wife and four children and works in his family's printing business. Visit www.iamthereforeiam.net for more information on his book I Am Therefore I Am: Finding God in Our Heart.

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» left by Anonymous
 3 years 147 days ago.
Mr. Doochin, you make an excellent point, and it's one that I need to embrace more often. However, I think that trying to understand our path or God's plan is a very natural state of being and most likely one that God intended us to experience.
 
However, I think that trying to understand EVERYTHING is where I/we miss the point and get so confused and messed up.  I will try not to second-guess God!
 
Thanks.
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